FONX press release:
Experience the Web Out Loud - With Fonix Voice
Fonix Announces Fonix SpeakThis(TM), a Revolutionary Application That Voice-Enables the Web With Fonix Text-To-Speech
SALT LAKE CITY, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fonix(R) Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX), a leading provider of voice solutions, today announced the official launch of Fonix SpeakThis, an application that speech-enables any website. SpeakThis provides fast-to-deploy, universal speech capabilities for the World Wide Web. From commercial website owners and developers, to the smallest, information-only personal sites, SpeakThis will easily speech-enable any website using automatically generated HTML code that you simply paste into your pages. There is no hardware or software to download, install, or maintain -- all the hard work is done for you.
"We recognize that the content of any website is constantly changing. With SpeakThis, those changes are automatically reflected in the spoken audio that site visitors hear," said Kirk M. Feller, Vice President and General Manager, Fonix Consumer Applications Group. "SpeakThis offers both male and female voice options, as well as international language support. SpeakThis offers webmasters throughout the world an opportunity to comply with government regulations and bring more volume to their site."
Once you set it up, you can simply forget about it. Additionally, you will have full control over voice characteristics such as pitch and rate, and those voice characteristics can be tied to Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) style rules for tremendous flexibility and productivity. This means that you can choose to have different portions of a page spoken with different voices, or exclude portions of a page from being spoken.
SpeakThis offers international language support for 10 languages, including U.K. English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. Webmasters receive complete, up-to-date usage statistics in convenient online reports, and can select from three automatically generated HTML options (text link, button, or auto-start).
SpeakThis supports federal guidelines and industry standards for speech synthesis online by supporting the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) level 2 CSS2 Specification for Aural style sheets. SpeakThis can assist webmasters in complying with the Federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Section 508 Electronic & Information Technology which " ... requires that electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the Federal government be accessible to people with disabilities." And SpeakThis includes automatic support for keyboard shortcuts to increase usability and accessibility. With SpeakThis your website will speak volumes.
Does your website have something to say? Visit www.speakthis.com for pricing information and experience the web out loud.
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